Romains 5

At peace with God through faith

¹So now that we have been declared righteous by faith, we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ²Through him we have also been brought by faith into this grace where we now stand, and we boast in the hope of sharing God’s glory.^{ab 3}More than that, we boast even in our troubles, because we know that trouble leads to endurance, ⁴endurance to proven character, and proven character to hope. ⁵And hope does not leave us ashamed, for God has given us the Holy Spirit, and through the Spirit his love has flooded our hearts.

God’s love shown while we were sinners

⁶While we were still helpless, at the time God had chosen, Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷It is rare for anyone to give their life even for a righteous person; for a good person, perhaps, someone might find the courage to die. ⁸But God proves how much he loves us: Christ died for us when we were still sinners. ⁹Since we have now been declared righteous by his blood, it is all the more certain that we will be saved through him from God’s wrath. ¹⁰We were enemies of God when the death of his Son reconciled us to him. Now that we are reconciled, it is all the more certain that we will be saved by the Son’s life. ¹¹More than that, we boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him this reconciliation is now ours.

Through one man sin, through one man grace

¹²Therefore, just as through one man sin came into the world, and death came by sin, and so death reached all people because all sinned— ¹³for sin was already in the world before the law was given, but where there is no law, sin is not entered in the account. ¹⁴Even so, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over people whose sin was not like Adam’s breaking of a command. And Adam is a pattern of the one who was to come.^c

¹⁵But the trespass and the free gift are not alike. If many died because of one man’s trespass, then far more has God’s grace overflowed to the many, together with the gift given by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ. ¹⁶Nor is the gift like what came through the one man who sinned. The judgment followed one trespass and brought condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses and brought acquittal. ¹⁷If death reigned through one man because of that one man’s trespass, it is far more certain that those who receive grace in full measure and the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

¹⁸So then, as one trespass meant condemnation for all people, so one righteous act means for all people that they are declared righteous and given life.^{d 19}For the disobedience of one man made the many sinners, and in the same way the obedience of the one will make the many righteous. ²⁰The law came in alongside, so that the trespass would multiply. But where sin multiplied, grace overflowed far beyond it, ²¹so that, as sin held its reign through death, grace in turn might reign through righteousness and lead to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.